CONTENTSA. Introduction.................. 1B. History of Suriname Carcinology............ 4I. Popular literature............... 4II. Scientific literature............... 11III. Economic literature............... 17IV. Collectors................. 17V. Expeditions................. 34C. Occurrence of Decapoda in Suriname.......... 41D. Economic Importance of Suriname Decapoda......... 43E. Enemies of Suriname Decapoda............. 44F. Vernacular Names................ 47G. Notes on the Species............... 49a. Macrura.................. 49b. Anomura.................. 130c. Brachyura.................. 162H. Literature cited................. 277A.INTRODUCTIONThe decapod fauna of the three Guianas (British, Dutch, and French) is very poorly known. A few scattered notes exist which deal with the crabs and shrimps of the region, but no comprehensive account of the Decapoda of any of the three countries has ever been published apart from Young's (1900) "The stalk-eyed Crustacea of British Guiana, West Indies and Bermuda", which, however, also covers the West Indian Islands and Bermuda (including the deep-water species), and furthermore is incomplete.